Pearl River Delta Cities Network Structure

Since the1980s, with the services sector especially producer services, improvelabor productivity and enhance urban competitiveness increasingly play a key role.The services sector in the city, regional economic study research more and moreresearchers’ attention. Western scholars in the study of the global city, the world citynetwork and the regional network of cities, the progressive development of the spacedistribution of the use of advanced producer services (APS) data to study the theoriesand methods of urban network structure, the scope of its research World city networkgradually penetrated into the regional network of cities.In this paper, the theory and literature by combing the city network research athome and abroad, the city network theory research framework formed in the space offlows, the reference chain network model and social network analysis to study theworld city network, the establishment of nine cities in the Pearl River Delta x290theAPS’s company offices matrix explore the spatial structure of cities in the Pearl RiverDelta network from advanced producer services (APS) perspective.The study found that: Guangzhou, and Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta citynetwork system double a core; the sub central city Foshan and Dongguan in thenumber of connections and links flux is significantly ahead of other cities in additionto a core; Zhongshan, the overall comparable Zhuhai and Huizhou city network,together constitute the the general node cities in the network; Jiangmen and Zhaoqingsignificantly lagging behind in a significant number of connections and links flux,belong to the edge of the network system in the Pearl River Delta city. Overall, basedon advanced producer services perspective Pearl River Delta region has formed alevel with the network co-existence of urban structure.